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In fact we're talking about claims that Anthropic is making to juice their IPO prospects, there's precisely zero indication that ML is capable of doing what you're suggesting. Generally speaking an enormous claim requires commensurate support, not "I figure it'll just work out down the road."

Yes exactly. It isn’t a surprise that the industry with no professional standards worth discussing is also the one having the biggest field day with ML. My point is that in many other professional arenas acting like a software “engineer” is called malpractice.

That’s utopian thinking unburdened by reality or the need to explain how this will work. I have no interest in that.

We aren’t talking about the new version of SV spiritualism here, we’re talking about systems people actually care about.

The major difference is that people routinely ship shoddy, broken products in the world of software with few consequences, beyond needing to patch it later. Try the same thing with a court filing and you’re out on your ass.

There’s no indication of ML systems expediting the clinical trial process, only the “brainstorming” part.

We have clinical trials for that. I’d also suggest that the first step in offering fixes for a complex problem should be educating yourself about the nature of that problem.

Exactly. The reality is that spitting out drug candidates is already the “easy” part… the harder part is getting that candidate through clinical trials, which is where 90% of such journeys end.

As always Anthropic is saying literally anything if it gets them closer to the giant bucket of money that is the IPO.

The only thing server owners control is whether the server is public or not. They can’t set this particular aspect of it on or off, only individual users can.

As for turning a public server private or vice versa, that’s a very noticeable and impactful decision in lots of ways already.

I live in a world where Signal is free, anything can be encrypted, and the major barrier to any of that is human laziness and a lack of interest.

We don't need conspiracies, people stink at this to begin with and most DO NOT CARE. The tech world is a bubble, we are less than 1% of 1%.

Those sounds like largely unrelated concepts that just happen to overlap somewhat in practice, and are also very individual. As a private person I don't lose anything at all by not using social media, but if I owned a local pizza shop I'd be losing a ton of business by shunning hat avenue of advertisement.

Personally I think the most useful definition for censorship in the context discussed here is *government* censorship. A company offering a product isn't forcing you to engage with it, even if it is a benefit to do so. You cannot in any way evade the oversight of your government without risking criminal penalties. Amazon can deny you their services. The government can deny you your life and freedom.

It's why the 1st Amendment protects us again government control of speech and assembly, but not the censure and pressure of our peers.

It's worth remembering that for all of its strengths, this place is also first and foremost a forum for people chasing VC money and support. Name aside that is the essential draw, and that's why it's so much bigger and more active than alternative sites or more specialized technical communities. In my experience those smaller, more... well places with higher standards for actual technical knowledge tend to be a lot less tolerant of the MBA poseurs and the LessWrong/SlateStar/EA/etc cults.

You can rationalize anything if you ignore your responsibilities to other people. Ultimately that’s just a long way around to being a crappy person.

For those who won't act ethically or at least reasonably, regulation is the answer. We're not too far away from flipping the congress into something far more willing to do just that, especially with anything connected to Elon Musk.